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I agree about a true energy crisis, but it depends on how long term you want to think. In the short term I think there's "problemists" on both left and right w
by api 2y ago
I agree about a true energy crisis, but it depends on how long term you want to think.
In the short term I think there's "problemists" on both left and right who actually hope for scarcity or collapse so that their preferred social system can rise from the ashes -- some kind of scaled-back communitarian socialism or neo-primitivism for the left, and various types of traditionalism for elements of the right.
- anovikov 2y agoI didn't think of it that way, but you seem to be onto something. I can indeed see that at least some groups of far left and far right are looking for modern society to collapse because they see it as the best way to push their values forward. I hope they don't become mainstream though.
- api 2y agoA common term for the most extreme of these groups is accelerationists. They believe in actually accelerating collapse to bring about the conditions for change. It's the kind of thing that's easy to believe when everything is abstract and you don't think about how this would affect real people.